Hi folks,
It's time for a status report.
As many
Forum members already know, I haven't worked on my website since the first week of March of last year (2020). This past year has been particularly bad for me. I got what I suspect was Covid in December 2019. I was very sick for 9-10 weeks, until early March 2020. I felt "okay" for several weeks. Then, I got sick again for several weeks. Of course, this is all in addition to my chronic Lyme disease that I have
had for the past 31 years (since 1990). Medically speaking, I am
still not back to my pre-December 2019 condition.
In the past year, I
had 4 Covid-related deaths in my "
circle" (extended family, etc.). All 4 of these people
had the 2 lethal pre-existing conditions (obesity and diabetes). About a year ago, my mother's best friend died from Covid. She was elderly. A few months ago, my cousin's husband died from Covid. He was 61 years old. But those 2 deaths were small compared to the 2 "big ones" (for me). In July 2020, a woman who meant a lot to me died from Covid. She was 56 years old. I dated her in the past. At the time, I thought she was "the one". I wanted to marry her and have children with her. Everyone in my extended family (my "big fat
Italian family") liked her. I
still don't know why the relationship failed.
In April 2020, my cousin Tommy died from Covid. He was 54 years old. He wasn't just my cousin. He was my best friend. We were very close. We were like brothers. Whenever I
had something on my mind, or if something was bothering me, he was the person I called. This loss was compounded by the fact that my cousin Joe died of a heart attack in 2010 at the age of 49. I was very close with him too. We were also like brothers. My cousins Joe and Tommy were my 2 best friends, and they are both dead now.
This is the just the "tip of the iceberg" for me regarding things that went wrong in the past year. As I mentioned earlier in this
thread, Neil Peart died in January 2020 from brain
cancer. Rush has been my favorite band since 1984. Now that Neil Peart is deceased, it looks like I won't be attending Rush concerts any more.
About a thousand other things went wrong this past year. And it caused me to get backed up on things. It took me all this time just to get caught up on everything. The result of all of this is that I was unable to
work on my website since the first week of March 2020. That was 11 months ago. Hopefully, tomorrow, I can finally resume working on my website again.
As many
Forum members know, I started working on my project in 2012. The was 9 years ago. I started working on my website (which is Phase III of my project) in November 2015. My computer and flash drive are both now 5 1/2 years old. My iPhone4 is now 10 years old or more. I
still have entire sections to add to my website. Some of my text needs to be edited. I
still have many sub-par photos that need to be swapped out with better
quality photos. In fact, that is what I was doing in March 2020 when I
had to stop my
work because of everything that went wrong in my life this past year. So, presumably, that is where I will resume my
work.
However, before I can do that, because I neglected my website for 11 months, and because I haven't processed any incoming coins for 11 months, I must address those issues first. I have 11 month's worth of incoming coins (my "new arrivals") that I must process and add to my website. This will probably take me several weeks to do.
But, before I can even do that, I have some small website-related things that need to be addressed. A few of my website pages need to be split to accommodate future growth. Also, Lech pointed out to me several errors that need to be
corrected, and I noticed some myself. So, I will probably spend the next few days addressing those issues.
Hopefully, I won't have any more setbacks.
Meepzorp